Three Costume Sketches by Rene Hubert for 1935 Shirley Temple Films

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9" (23 cm.) x 6 ´" sketch. 20" x 17" framed. The costume sketches on parchment offer proposals for three various costumes for Shirley Temple 1935 films, "Curly Top" or "Our Little Girl". Including an unusual design with pleated sleevelets and blue pleated skirt below the high waist, pencil labeled 4984 with pencil notation "Sunday supper dress"; a white dress with red hidden pleats and trim, and with red berry accents. and small pencil sketch of the dress back, numbered 4821; and pale pink frou-frou dress with multi-tiered all-over ruffles including sleeves. Each is framed. Generally excellent. The costumes were designed by Rene Hubert, designed the costumes for both of Shirley Temple films of 1935. The famed Paris-trained Swiss fashion designer, Rene Hubert, came to Hollywood in 1924, worked under contract at Fox Studios from 1931-1935, and is credited with the design of many of Shirley's costumes during this era. Shirley Temple's memoirs note that it was Hubert who originated the design of her short dress lengths. She overheard Hubert state that a little girl's dress should never be longer than the length of her arm when held at her side, and thereafter she insisted on that principle whenever a dress was designed.